West-Oak pageant winners

Braelyn Nicole Wood is the West-0ak High School student who wears the crown this year of Miss West-0ak.  She prevailed in Saturday night’s school pageant. Braelyn’s court includes the following pageant contestants:  Bella Lynch, runner-up; Hannah Nicole Dobbs, Miss Senior; Sarah Myers, Miss Congeniality; Erin Page Redmond, Sweetheart Queen; Cara Ann Cooper, People’s Choice Miss Warrior; Emma Claire Edgar, Miss […]

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Avery King

Westminster– Avery Lee King, 20, passed away on Friday, February 3rd, 2023 at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital.   Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Avery was the son of Kenneth Clay King and Jessica King and the late Renee Rowland King. Avery attended West-Oak High School and was attending Tri-County Tech studying to be a heavy equipment operator. Avery had […]

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Oconee community responds to world hunger

In a two-hour exercise, church and civic club members from the Walhalla-West Union area packaged 18 thousand meals to be flown to countries that have the greatest hunger needs.  All bays in the West Union Fire Department were emptied of engines and pumpers Saturday morning, as around 100 people turned out in an event led by the organization Rise Against […]

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Traffic death near Westminster

  State troopers report the pickup involved in Friday night’s fatal accident near the Madison Community hit tree stumps and a fence along a rural secondary road in the vicinity of Berry Farm Road and the Cleveland Pike. Twenty-year-old Westminster resident Avery Lee King died at 11:52 pm. Coronere Addis said King’s death is classified Accidental.

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Barbara Demaris Pierce Rogers

Walhalla, SC — Barbara Demaris Rogers, 85, wife of the late Clarence Floyd Rogers, Sr., of Walhalla, passed away on Thursday, February 2, 2023, at her home.   A native of Oconee County, SC, Mrs. Rogers was the daughter of the late William Claude Pierce, Sr. and Finus Lee Holland Pierce. She was a homemaker.   Mrs. Rogers is survived […]

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Nick Gambrell to be conference presenter

Nick Gambrell, a history preservationist, will tell about his Oakway reclamation project when he speaks in Conway in March.  “One Piece at a Time:  Creating a Living History Farm from Scratch” is the title of the presentation Gambrell will make to a conference of the Southeast Association of Living Farms and Agricultural Museums.”  Currently, roof and siding are being restored […]

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